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From: "C.Oppenheim" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 9:54 AM
Subject: Re: [data-protection] Private Eye Data Protection cartoon
> "Reporting current events" refers to, for example, reproducing the text
> of a recent speech by, or a video of, Tony Blair speaking, or copying the
> video of a great goal from the World Cup. At the time of the controversy
> over the Danish cartoons depicting Mohamed, one might have reproduced them
> and claimed this was fair dealing for reporting current events. In other
> words, it's the common sense use of the phrase "current events".
> Reproducing a cartoon about data protection is hardly "current events",
> especially as the content of the cartoon is generic and does not refer to
> some specific recent news story.
>
> You could do argue the case for criticism or review if the Private Eye
> cartoon was being posted so that we could do a critical appraisal of the
> cartoon's style and content, but that wasn't the idea, was it? It was to
> entertain us! Review and criticism means just what is says on the tin.
>
> In a nutshell, the terms used in the bit of the copyright act regarding
> fair dealing need to be construed in common sense ways.....
>
Any fair-minded person would I think that this is related to the scale of
the thing. Using for a small professional journal as a bit of
"entertainment" (and why not?) or training is hardly something to trouble a
publisher.
I understand that Charles' background includes working for large publishers.
I don't really think what is being proposed will overturn the copyright
laws.
I think that we are making a mountain out of a molehill.
Nick Landau
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